San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Sheriff Peterson. of Cuero, is des

yesterday IN very lAst time OF 2:l2
New York Graphic sold for $3.50, 600
1t does not change its politics.
The HidsgO county marauders are
coming TO grief.
Work on the Galveston jettles is in
active progress.
Reports Of trouble in the sugar dis
triots are greatly exaggerated.
Fruits OF all kind are scarce and prices
will rule high.
ReeZe's circus was burned at Ham
burg Tuesday. The stud was saved.
Louisville reports two large business
failures.
Mayor Roche grants permission to
circulate petition for anarchists pardon
on the streets OF Chicago.
Arbeiter Ieiting, of Chicago, winds
! up Its diatrihe against the supreme
court with-"Publlc be damned"
Tuck AgRe hanged yesterday at Lex
ingtOn was the first white man hanged
In central Kentucky since the war.
Gen. sherman says that 1t is rebel
gloriticatiOn which has compelled the
republicans to revive the war Issues.
The "infernal machine" sent to Judge
Waite was u newspaper reporters hoax
to sell sensation.
Mrs. Cleveland receives an elegant
| fan from the WOman's Self Help sssocia-
| ton OF Jamaica.
Booker. OF Temple, who killed the
circus man at Temple, is jailed in de-
fault Of 81 900 bond.
Whisky is said to be largely response
BILE for the loss of the Vernon. Her
captain was hard drinker.
Frost, Former presdent OF Parker
county Land Co., arrested for embeZzle-
ment, in Greer county.
Baker. circus follower, shoots Con-
rad, an emplOye of Howe's London
Show, at Temple.
A young Iowa farmer abscOnds and
leaves his creditors at Davenport and
Clinton $50 900 mlrus.
Yesterday was sherman and Fort
Worth day at the Dallas fair; 10, 600 peo-
pie In attendance.
There are $500 Dervishes between
Sarres and DongQls. Further reinforce
ments have been sent to Wady Halfa.
Yellow feverat Tampa reported abat-
ing; seven cases and three deaths since
last report.
Health officer Smith OF New York
justIties the acts of the health authOTi-
ties. in cholera matters.
Great excitement in the Cherokee
capital and many iDha3itants have lefr,
fearing blOodshei.
The Duke OF Sutherland Ia dangerous
ly i'll in London. He ia suffering from
congestion Of the lungs.
Sir DrummOnd Hay. lately English
m IL IN Mprpnan haa
gier. He is going to visit the sultan on
n special mission.
Rev. Mr.. SprrgeOn, In formal letter
of resignation from the Baptist Uniur.
says 1t is useless TO ask him to reconsider
his decision.
Ed. Corrigan at Kansas City fearfully
beats a reporter for remRrking like
ness between dog trainer and Pat
Carrigan, Eds brother.
The Southwestern university at
Georgetown is in possession of the es-
tate bequeathed it by DR.. Alexander, OF
Bolton.
The silver one impOrtatiOns at the
port OF Ell PasO for the past month, foot
up 1867 tons. The total value is $685.
800.
Western Union Telegraph company
has increased its capital stock S5.O00,-
600. This makes the total stock SS6,-
100000,
King, retired druggist of Fort Worth
returns home from Kansas City to find
his wife had eloped and taken the
children.
Three thousand Italian troops, COM
prising the first section Of the eXpedi-
tion to Abyssinia, departed Wednesday
for MassOwah.
Mail advices from Sierra Leone say
the natives of S8nnchOO have risen and
massaCred police and number of other
people. The gunbOats, Acorn and
ElectO, will proceed to the scene to sup
press the rising.
1t is stated that Krupp offered $780,
600 for the secret of the new explosive
manufactured by a Russian engineer,
ROucktessell, and that the inventor re-
fused the offer because he had already
made contract with the government.
An Indian Spring (Fla.) woman has a
hen that is covered with hair instead of
feathers. 1t lays and has hatched chick
ems coated like herself, but they inyari-
able died in infancy.
A San Francisco man who refused to
nay bill Of 1896 30 for twenty-five
uOuEb' "OEk put on DIS teeIu was tueu
by the dentist for the amount. The
court cut the charges down to $40,
which the defendant willingly paid.
Treasury department statement shows
that during the month Of October there
was an increase Of Sl3,O27 $50 in Oircula-
ton. and net increase of Sl4 ,240 5l4 In
cash in the treasury. The total In cir
culatiOn on November | Ia stated at
1866, 5l2.3i6. and the total cash In the
treasury q S6OS. 60O,0O2.
The steamship Merchant Prince, from
Newcastle. Wales, with cargo Of steel
rails for the Mexican National railway,
libeled at Galveston by K. B. WigtOn &
Sons, of New York. for debt of 1896
due for Goals furnished last March. The
United States marshal has charge of the
vessel.
If temporary reductions of telegraph
charges will create diversion from the
strong tide which is setting towards
government control of telegraph lines,
it goes without saying that Jay Gould
will see that the temporary reduction
occurs. The extOrtion snake may be
sootched but 1t will never be killed I'M
til Uncle Sam places his foot upon
the neck of the old serpent.
If any additional testimony was neo-